What does open-hearth mean?
Open-hearth means Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities..
Open-hearth
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Meaning
Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities..
Definitions by Sense
- Describing a reverberatory furnace used to make steel, usually in mass-produced quantities.
- Designating the steel so produced.
- Describing an open hearth in the home, especially in premodern centuries when such hearths were more common.
Example Sentences
a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
Early open-hearth steels, beating crucible steels on price but often unable to match their quality, were nonetheless well suited to many applications where extreme strength was superfluous but low cost was essential.
the little tricks of open-hearth cooking that she had nearly forgotten after years behind a coal range
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- open hearth
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a then-new steel mill with three large open-hearth furnaces
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